ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors seek volunteers to
author reviews for the October 2026 issue. To volunteer, choose a resource
from the list below and complete our Reviewer Interest form (
https://forms.gle/viaCJvMwFUydCN9S8) by Wednesday, July 29th.
Initial draft submissions are due Monday, August 31st.
Contributing to ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews
<https://multimediatechnologyreviews.arlisna.hcommons.org/>
is a great opportunity to get involved with the Society, learn about
interesting new resources, and help shape the publication. Please read
the complete
review guidelines
<https://multimediatechnologyreviews.arlisna.hcommons.org/reviewer-guidelines/>
and
direct comments and questions about the reviews to arlisna.mtr_at_gmail.com.
Know of a resource we should review? Submit ideas here
<https://forms.gle/eVQ9YeMNWjfXJys38>
.
Submitted by ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors:
Matthew Garklavs
Bridget O'Keefe
Abigail Walker
Resources for Review:
We seek reviewers for the following resources. The snippets below are taken
from each resource's web page and are not necessarily the opinions of the
M&T Reviews Co-Editors.
Americana
https://americana.jcblibrary.org/ The John Carter Brown Library is at once
a physical site and a digital space. Americana is the digital door to the
library, named for the word chiseled in the limestone above the front door
of the library’s 1904 building. The JCB’s collection of books, maps, prints
and more, all focused on the early Americas, reside both in the building on
George Street, at the corner of the campus green at Brown University, and
in this digital location.
Aracne
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/resource/aracne-studying-painting-canvases/b44d6af3-3f35-51b7-2d10-aff52ec27915
Aracne is a digital tool that facilitates the analysis of the canvases that
artists used for their paintings. This software precisely and objectively
characterises fabrics so that paintings can be compared and original
formats and added layers studied.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals with Full Text
Produced in collaboration with the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
at Columbia University, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals with Full
Text contains full-text journal articles on architecture and design,
covering subjects such as the history and practice of architecture,
landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior
design. (MTR editors can arrange for temporary access to this
subscription-based resource).
Black Architects Archive
https://blackarchitectsarchive.org/ The Black Architects Archive traces the
impact of Black creative, intellectual, and physical labor on shaping the
built environment, and does so by revealing both the breadth and depth of
Black spatial practice in the Americas. It includes the work of Black
architects, builders, contractors, engineers, landscape designers,
draftsmen and women, mapmakers, and other built environment practitioners
working across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The aim of the
archive is to recover the historical impact that Black people have had on
shaping the towns, cities, and landscapes of the Americas while also making
this information publicly available as a resource for local history.
Design Card Decks for Ideation and Exploration
https://archive-it.org/collections/19560 The Design Card Decks for Ideation
and Exploration Web Archive is curated by librarians at the University of
Pennsylvania and Princeton University, under the auspices of the Ivy Plus
Libraries Confederation. Card decks are used in design fields as a
game-based methodology for ideation and stakeholder participatory
collaboration. The purposes of decks vary; some are used for brainstorming
new products and services while others are scenario-based, prompting
designers to consider how their products or services may be incorporated
into different communities. They function both as a tool for design
speculation and as a set of illustrations that visualize design thinking.
This archive preserves websites associated with these decks; as design
thinking becomes popular in many disciplines, from business to science, the
potential user groups for these tools greatly expands outside traditional
design fields.
Digital Scriptorium
https://digital-scriptorium.org/ Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a growing
consortium of North American institutions with collections of global
premodern manuscripts. DS is dedicated to building an online national union
catalog built on Linked Open Data technologies and practices for premodern
manuscripts in US collections.
International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA)
https://duraeuroposarchive.org/ IDEA is harnessing the power of Linked Open
Data (LOD) to reassemble and re-contextualize archaeological information
related to Dura-Europos. Unique circumstances of preservation make
Dura-Europos a rare archaeological resource. The city provides unparalleled
glimpses into a multicultural religious life, the running of a military
garrison, and domestic coexistence of different ethnic groups, and has
preserved hundreds of organic materials that survive in the archaeological
record from few other places. But recognition as a singular resource for
information about the ancient past has come at a price. Excavations
involving multiple institutional partners and well-intentioned efforts to
share-out access to physical objects from Dura has led to the dispersal of
the site’s artifacts and other archival materials into collections across
the world. We’re using cutting-edge technology to power a new search
feature for Dura-Europos archaeological data and archival content as a
means to mitigate this physical dispersal and improve access to information
across disciplinary and linguistic silos for the (global) public good.
Odeuropa
https://odeuropa.eu/ Odeuropa is a European research project which bundles
expertise in sensory mining and olfactory heritage. We develop novel
methods to collect information about smell from (digital) text and image
collections. Our goal is to show that critically engaging our sense of
smell and our scent heritage is an important and a viable means for
connecting and promoting Europe’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
Reg-Arts : the register of enrolments at Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1813 to
1968
https://beauxartsparis.fr/en/actualite/reg-arts Created by three
institutions, the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the INHA and the CNRS, the Reg-Arts
database provides access to the Beaux-Arts de Paris enrolment registers of
more than 12,000 student painters, sculptors and engravers between 1813 and
1968.
Reg-Arts provides a central resource for art history, enabling researchers,
descendants, museums and galleries to explore the data.
Remodeled Getty Provenance Index and Tracing Art interactive
https://www.getty.edu/research/provenance/ https://www.getty.edu/tracingart/
Arches is a Getty-supported, open-source database platform hosting Getty
Provenance Index records that have been transformed into linked open data
resources. By treating Provenance Index records as a structured web of
related resources, Arches enhances accessibility and discoverability,
surfaces existing connections within Getty Provenance Index resources,
enables linkages with other cultural heritage datasets, and provides
powerful federated search and data visualization tools. These enhancements
make provenance research more efficient and adaptable to evolving scholarly
needs.
Trois Crayons Museum Forum
https://troiscrayonsforum.org/ The Trois Crayons Museum Forum is an
innovative, free-to-use digital platform dedicated to deepening the
understanding of pre-modern drawings in public collections. Join a global
network of art historians, curators, and enthusiasts to collaboratively
exchange ideas, discuss, and re-examine both familiar works and overlooked
sheets – shedding new light on old questions and bringing lesser-seen
drawings into focus.
VisColl
https://viscoll.org/ VisColl is a system for building models of the
physical collation of manuscripts, and then visualizing them in various
ways. The core of VisColl is the data model, which defines the structure of
individual manuscripts and which can be built and visualized by different
tools.
Abigail Walker (she/her)
Collection Development Librarian
Bard Graduate Center
38 West 86th Street
New York, NY 10024
E abigail.walker_at_bgc.bard.edu
P (212) 501 3016
Received on Wed Jul 22 2026 - 10:48:27 EDT